Category Archives: boondoggle

Catch up again – Links and Comments May 21, 2014

Cold Sun—uh oh global cooling.  And in Vail spring is slow, in fact it looks like mid January. Alan Caruba has had enough, as have I.  Too  much Gay Everything. via Instapundit Judicial Watch Obtains 106-Page HHS Document Revealing Scope … Continue reading

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It’s been a long time coming but I’m ready to blog again, so here is my State of the Union address

I haven’t stopped reading all the news and sending out my links and comments to others, I just haven’t had time for putting down my thoughts in blog form. So, a belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Now to … Continue reading

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What was/is going on in the USA as I turned 77

I  had intended to write a state of the union post on the occasion of my 77th birthday.  I didn’t, but this pretty well sums it up. President Obama, off the record  an article in which reporters excuse themselves for … Continue reading

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What if they gave a riot and nobody came?

So far that is what is happening with the media and the “expected riots” with the Zimmerman verdict.  We watched CNN, MSNBC and Fox News all trying to gin up some action from the protesters. The peaceful protesters, I might … Continue reading

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Links and Comments of Tuesday, June 18

This will be our greatest invasion of privacy, from Mother Jones: via Gateway Pundit: Immigration Bill Will Create National Database on Every Adult in US BREAKING: 41 Conservative Groups Have Now Signed On to Lawsuit Against IRS (Video Feds Raid Virginia … Continue reading

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Facts, Lies, and sins of omission

Update below Today I finally got fed up with newspapers, TV and radio just reading/printing the news as they get it from Associated Press, Reuters, Fox News, ABC news, and all those other alphabet news agencies, some of whom I … Continue reading

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Something about this headline caught my eye, you see, it’s about education

We’ve Added Feathers and it Still Won’t Fly?!? Well in the first place when you see it’s about education, you’ve just got to read it.  And then when you read the first two paragraphs they have you hooked. Posted by … Continue reading

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A valid criticism of the president

By the Washington Post’s conservative. The must-see critique of Obama and the debt-aholics By Jennifer Rubin On CNBC last night Ken Langone, the co-founder of Home Depot, delivered a lesson on debt and a scathing indictment of the president. His … Continue reading

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How’s that wind energy working out?

I found this at Wizbang. “wind power is about as dependable as, well, the wind.”posted by Rick quoting Don SurberFrom the Scotsman: “Scotland’s wind farms are unable to cope with the freezing weather conditions – grinding to a halt at … Continue reading

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